wow skysblue
thats a toughie to answer. i know after i had my breakdown i was overwhelmed with many emotions. i was depressed and suicidal, suffering from ptsd and bipolar, my emotions were totally irrational. now, a few years later, things seem mostly under control except for anxiety issues and the emotions from that i help control just knowing that i experience things more intensely than so called normal people. medication helped reduce my emotions quite a bit. then i took DBT which helped me learn how to identify emotions and sort things out the unrealistic thougths that led to these emotions thus reducing their intensity or doing away with them all together. i noticed quite a change after dbt. now i am just overwhelmed when my pstd is triggered and my emotions are anxiety driven. usually when i can remember that it is normal for anybody to be experiencing anxiety or a similar emotion in the same circumstance i am able to accept and move on from the intensity of the feeling. none of this has happened overnight though. i have been in therapy for over two years. being able to manage my emotions has not been a result of any one thing but a culmination of all the work i have been doing.